Tennessee Tech University

CHE 4110 (5110). Introduction to Computational Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 3110. General equations describing heat, mass, and momentum transport. Similarities and differences in transport properties are studied. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4130 (5130). Transfer Science III.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 2010. Principles, design, and operation of equipment for separation and purification of materials. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4210 (5210). Chemical Reaction Engineering.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 3020 or consent of instructor. Chemical reaction kinetics and chemical reactor design. Emphasis on homogeneous reactions. Ideal and nonideal reactors. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4300 (5300). Introduction to Air Pollution.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 3110. Problems of air pollution and their solutions. Analysis and design of devices for the control of air pollutants from chemical processes. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4410 (5410). Process Design I.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in CHE and/or consent of instructor. Synthesis, design, economics, and optimization of chemical process systems. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4420 (5420). Process Design II.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisites: CHE 5410 and graduate standing in CHE and/or consent of instructor. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE (ME) 4470 (5470). Interdisciplinary Studies in Ceramic Materials Processing.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: graduate standing in engineering or science. Materials processing; surface phenomena; particle size reduction; forming; consolidation by sintering and reaction processes; application of fracture mechanics; failure models; research on selected fabrication and synthesis routes for metals, ceramics and their composites; mechanical, chemical and morphological characterization theory and practice; materials design project using several onsite laboratories. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4510 (5510). Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 3020, 3120, and MATH 2910. Applied numerical methods and the solution of differential equations, both analytically and numerically, in chemical engineering. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4660 (5660). Biochemical Engineering.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 4210 or consent of instructor. Applications of chemical engineering principles to the study of biochemical systems. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 4730 (5730). Chemical Engineering Operations.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. Decision-making techniques as applied to management of chemical processing plants. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE (ECE) (ME) 4950 (5950). Introduction to MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS).

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Senior standing in engineering or consent of instructor. Introduce the design, fabrication and performance of MEMS devices. Topics include bulk and surface micromachining, photolithography, sensors, actuation systems, optical MEMS, micro cantilever-based systems. Students enrolled in the 5000-level course will be required to complete additional work as stated in the syllabus.

CHE 5911. Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar for MS and BS/MS Fast Track Students.

Lec. 1. Cr. 1.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering. Research methodology, ethics, and preparing for graduate studies in Chemical Engineering.

CHE 6010. Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Advanced thermodynamic concepts, especially phase and chemical equilibria, estimation and correlation of thermodynamic properties, and intermolecular forces.

CHE (CEE) (ME) 6040. Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.

Prerequisites: ME 3720. Formulation of mass and momentum transfer equations; exact solutions of laminar parallel flows; similarity and approximate solutions; potential flow; laminar momentum boundary layers. 

CHE 6060. Electrochemical Power Sources—Fuel Cells, Batteries, and Supercapacitors.

Lec. 2. Lab. 2. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 3010, ME 3210 or equivalent thermodynamics-related course. The lecture will start from the electrochemical thermodynamics and kinetics, with emphasis on electrochemical techniques, fundamental principles and technologies of batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors. A unique feature of the course is the fact that 20 percent of the time is spent in the laboratory using state of the art electrochemical instrumentation under the guidance of course instructor.

CHE 6110-20. Computational Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. An advanced study of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer.

CHE 6210. Advanced Kinetics.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Study of complex chemical reaction systems, catalytic and non-catalytic reactions, homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, and heat effects.

CHE 6410. Advanced Process Engineering Design.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Applications of thermodynamics, kinetics, transfer operations, and economics to optimum design of processes, equipment, and plants.

CHE 6530. Process Optimization.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Application of the principles of optimization and related techniques to the problems of chemical processes.

CHE 6540. Process Dynamics.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 4540 or equivalent. Continuation of Chemical Engineering 4540. Frequency response methods, nonlinear methods, process applications, and computer simulation.

CHE 6810. Special Topics in Chemical Engineering.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Topics such as polymeric materials, biochemical engineering, pollution abatement, air and liquid filtration, energy conversion, processing in extreme conditions.

CHE 6910-20. Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Lec. 1. Cr. 1.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering. Current literature in Chemical Engineering and presentation of current or completed graduate research.

CHE 6990. Research and Thesis.

Cr. 1,3,6,9.

CHE 7030. Molecular Thermodynamics.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prediction and correlation of thermodynamic properties used in vapor-liquid and liquid-liquid phase equilibrium calculations. Monte-Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulation techniques.

CHE 7040. Thermodynamics of Hydrocarbons.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Methods for presenting thermodynamic data of hydrocarbons; P-V-T correlations, K and alpha values, fugacity and activity coefficients.

CHE 7140. Separation Processes.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Separation processes including multicomponent distillation, azeotropic and extractive distillation, gas absorption, and liquid-liquid extraction.

CHE 7220. Chemical Reactors for Heterogeneous Systems.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Design of reactors for heterogeneous systems.

CHE 7410. Advanced Topics in Computational Molecular Design.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 6010 and consent of instructor. Strategies, techniques and applications associated with recent advances in the inverse design process of computational molecular design.

CHE 7420. Advanced Topics in Multi-Scale Simulation of Materials.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 5510, CHE 6110 or equivalents with consent of instructor. This course will develop the concept of multi-scale analysis and mathematical approaches and illustrate them for a number of applications.

CHE 7430. Computational Modeling of Electrochemical Systems.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Prerequisite: CHE 6110 or similar with consent of the instructor. Modeling methodologies, recent techniques and tools required to simulat electrochemical systems and in particular batteries.

CHE 7970. Selected Topics.

Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
Advanced special topics in chemical engineering taught on an as-needed basis.

CHE 7990. Research and Dissertation.

Cr. 1,3,6,9.